Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science.

At a Buddhist college campus in Dharamsala, the exile home of the Dalai Lama in northern India, red-robed monks and nuns experimented with pendulums, gathered plants in the foothills of the Himalayas that showed natural selection and bent their shaved heads over microscopes to view an unseen world.

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Family say they cannot afford surgical help for surviving conjoined twin born with four arms and four legs

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Visitors to the weeklong gathering of the Self-Realization Fellowship practice yoga and meditation while honoring the underlying principles of different faiths.

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A law allowing 16-year-olds to opt out of prayers in assembly devalues and marginalizes religion in schools, warns Dr. Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales.

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Gordon Brown has insisted that Britain remains a Christian country and defended the right of worshippers to express their faith in public.

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According to a new survey carried out by the Dutch office of statistics (CBS), the number of Muslims in the Netherlands who go to mosque at least once a month has dropped.

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Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

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Wanted: Islam’s Voltaire
TRP: The Economist discuss the dangers of open minded inquiry in Islam.

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In an ideological contest between radicals, populists and moderates, speaking out can still carry a heavy personal cost

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A number of factors contribute to growing religious intolerance: a harsh blasphemy law and the increasing presence of radical Islamist organizations

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Some residents of the mostly secular Ramat Aviv district, alarmed by the increasing presence and proselytizing of ultra-Orthodox Haredim, are trying to drive them out.

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Atheism can express intolerance and hatred quite as well as religion. Sam Harris proves it

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Religious violence results in the killings of Christians in Pakistan.  Attacks began in Gojra over a claim that a Koran had been defiled.

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Religious man lets his daughter die, and thereby proves to himself that God doesn’t exist.  She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.

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In eastern Pakistan, homes torched over allegations holy book was defiled

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